REST DAY FOR WORKERS. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1911, Page 2

REST DAY FOR WORKERS. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — I want every ivorker to note how the Labour Bills Parliamentary Committee treat the "Bill Viliich is to give all v>orkfcr« a one day ri^st in spa en. In [taly. France, and Belgium the workers get orto day off in se^on. In Switzerland a Reb<.Day Act was introduced, with the result. Ui.»t on tho tnii'nays ibere wa l 3 o treinL'iidous fcciacti'jn in acuulenls during ihu first jcav, T ( kli e o)i, thu' inronlor. has dcmoiUufdtu'l thrt a uion can ilo bettor work if he icsi.-? one day in peven. Who v.iints iho UehL L>y;< in this haupy couutry'' Why, t<*atiiv\«>-tncu, win* work thirteen days before getting a rest tf.ij ; fiolicctnpn, wlio aie on duty tweatj'-ojio da%=! before getting a Sunday ; certain ir.ctos -car drivers and htokns* hardly get. a Sunday, and other* In the Good "Book it ba\s that every poipcn, servant. a<:d inu&fer, must get thirteen weeks rest during the year, or one dny itt suven , yet masters fly«in the facn of their Creator's lyv/ by bi'ibing men to forego their rest day by giving them double pay on Sunday.—l am, etc., WAITING. Wellington^ 13th September. 1911.